{"id":725,"date":"2006-11-03T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/10-30-90-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:33:07","slug":"10-30-90-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=725","title":{"rendered":"10-30-90 Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=725\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>East Coast<\/p>\n<p>A journey without a proper map<br \/>\nWell winged routes reward the traveler<br \/>\nLeaving faulty castles,thin towels hung to dry<br \/>\nSwitchless options in a veil of gravel.<br \/>\nChoosing jagged paths to the old same place<br \/>\nA million ghosts,well,maybe thousands,along<br \/>\nRoads and stonewalls,<br \/>\nSaltboxes and fauna;<br \/>\nSo sure of my destination,the how not my concern.<br \/>\nWater often laughed at,looking strong and ego-less<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been where it&#8217;s going,I know where it&#8217;s been<br \/>\nA tightening of the scalp,autumn orange falling free<br \/>\nNo longer angry you missed the peak of the season;<br \/>\nToo scared for that now.<\/p>\n<p>Primary,secondary<br \/>\nAgendas hidden and hopeful<br \/>\nSolar white sees none of that<br \/>\nShaping the molten edge of an aquatic silver bar<br \/>\nFor as long as the sun keeps the angle<br \/>\nHealing,helping,<br \/>\nExplorers all we are<br \/>\nI&#8217;m blessed with roadsigns new and old<br \/>\nOnroad,offroad<br \/>\nHuman sometimes<br \/>\nDo I know you as well as you think you know me?<\/p>\n<p>Precipitating change,memories of secrets<br \/>\nMine and others,views that tears understand<br \/>\nI try to be there for you,knowing,unknowing<br \/>\nNot knowing,but understanding more than there&#8217;s credit for<br \/>\nNo time to keep score(we don&#8217;t do that no more)<\/p>\n<p>Someone sings e.e. cummings<br \/>\neverything i see is lower case today besides God<br \/>\nMy God,how the sound of water calms my soul<br \/>\nFor a moment my heart races,my spirit eddies and soars<br \/>\nThe ghosts smile from behind the stone walls<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re not leaving<br \/>\nGlad to see me<br \/>\nFrightened of pain they were,like myself.<\/p>\n<p>Three canine greetings bring a smile to my face<br \/>\nFour covered bridges welcomed me and sent me on my way<br \/>\nModern day sailing men,ports inland and not<br \/>\nI ride the seas to escape myself,find myself again<br \/>\nMy journey full circle,<br \/>\nAshes to ashes,<br \/>\nMay peace be with us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Coast A journey without a proper map Well winged routes reward the traveler Leaving faulty castles,thin towels hung to dry Switchless options in a veil of gravel. Choosing jagged paths to the old same place A million ghosts,well,maybe thousands,along Roads and stonewalls, Saltboxes and fauna; So sure of my destination,the how not my concern. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":740,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/4419"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}